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5.0 out of 5 stars
Charming and magical, this is a series that is sure to enchant readers! I love the new Fams, August 3, 2010
This review is from: Heart Journey (Mass Market Paperback)
Heart Journey by Robin D. Owens
Paranormal Romance- Aug. 3, 2010
4 ½ stars
Fantasy and engaging romance combine in the 9th installment of the heartwarming Heart Books of Celta series. This was an engrossing read and I felt the strong heroine and the sly Fam (animal familiars that talk telepathically to them) really stole the show!
I love the world the author has created on Celta! Where the citizens have special powers according to their family. (It is a world I would love to live in!) And if they are lucky they will find a Heart Mate. The one person destined to complete them. In this story we have to seemingly opposite characters who find love.
Helena D'Elecampane loves living on the road. Being in the populated city drains her and when she must return to deliver her renowned and well-coveted maps she decides she will search for her Heart Mate there, too. Soon Helena discovers her Heart Mate is the handsome and younger actor Raz Perry. Helena quickly sees that Raz is more concerned with appearances and revels in the city life. She realizes that although he is her Heart Mate their opposite views on life may not lead to a happily ever after. So she decides to become a patron of the theatre and meet him. To discover if they could match. Soon both are caught a whirl wind attraction. Helena tries to find a way to compromise but she feels the confines of the city suffocating her. Can their blooming love survive? In addition, Helena must deal with the responsibility of taking care of her House. Since a tragic fire killed all but one young relative. Trying to balance her responsibilities and her yearnings makes for a heavy burden.
This book seemed to center more on the heroine. What I liked best about this story is how self sufficient Helena is and how comfortable with herself she is. Although she loves Raz and wants to be with him she also recognizes that his acting is important to him. And while she is willing to compromises she is still sure of her own individuality. Even though I really wanted her to be happy with Raz I knew she could survive if they couldn't make it work. (Sometimes the story where the woman has to have the man to complete her gets a little tiring even if it is a romance.)
This was a gentle book that slow unfurls making you love the characters. Robin Owen's books remind of Mercedes Lackey novels except they have a lot more romance and therefore a more developed and meaningful relationship between the 2 main characters.
This was a highly enjoyable romance. And a very moving read. These characters felt very real and I wondered if love would be enough to keep them together. How could the 2 solve their difference when both had such different needs?
I take great pleasure in revisiting Robin Owen's series. I always enjoy learning the new Fam that each of the characters have. (They are playful and fun and I would love to have one of my own!) Charming and magical, this is a series that is sure to enchant readers!
Reviewed by Steph from Bookaholics Romance Book Club
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Simply Delicious, August 3, 2010
This review is from: Heart Journey (Mass Market Paperback)
Owens does a great job of blending real life issues in her futuristic/fantasies. Del, a cartographer, loves her job, but fate may be conspiring to change all that. She's learned her entire family has died in a fire. All except the youngest, Doolee, a toddler that was rescued and is living with the Blackthorns.
They have grown to love the baby, and the baby them, and they want to adopt the child. But if they do it might spell the end of her family line. Their spells, rituals, and memories forgotten. And the house, which is growing toward sentience, might die.
She's also learned that her heartmate is Raz Cherry. Bad enough he's an actor and in love with cities and fame, but he's also younger then her. How can a man so tied to city and stage fit into her life of wandering the wilds, mapping and exploring Celta for future generations.
Del must make some hard choices. And she soon recognizes, that what is best for those she loves, may be to let them go.
The book has a few timing problems that mildly distract from the story, but these issues are small and far between.
The book is certainly another gem in Owens growing catalog of great reads.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
3.5 stars - A Meandering Journey of the Heart, August 3, 2010
This review is from: Heart Journey (Mass Market Paperback)
Heart Journey returns us to the magical world of Celta. Cartographer Del decides to take a break from her travels to search out her Heartmate. The brash practical frontier women figures that she'll find him, claim him and resume her gypsy-like lifestyle. Of course it's not going to be that easy, because her Heartmate Raz's calling is as an actor and his career is his focus, and even if Del could tolerate living in Raz's world he doesn't want a heartmate or a family.
So Del is forced to patiently pursue the committment phobic Raz - Del knows Raz is her Heartmate but she's not allowed to tell him - and though Raz is drawn to Del and deep down he senses their connection, he's in denial. Still he's likeable as a leading man and Del goes through changes during the course of the story which up her appeal and I couldn't help but hope that her efforts to find a way to meld their two totally incompatible worlds would pan out.
Heart Journey on the whole was pretty meandering and not one of the strongest stories of the series, but even though all of the conflicts in the story are pretty easily and quickly resolved, there are some pretty powerful moments later on in the story before the pair finally find their HEA and I loved Del's fam-fox, and appearances by old characters - so as long as Owens keeps writing these, I'll keep reading them.
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